“Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies.”

“Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies!”

“Therefore make money. A pox of drowning thyself! 'Tis clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than to be drowned and go without her.”

“What's a drunken man like, fool?Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him.”

“Make the upcoming hour overflow with joy, and let pleasure drown the brim.”

“O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note,to drown me in thy sister’s flood of tears.”

“I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!”